a pretty gneiss dike

21 | butch lesbian | rock nerd | he/him (also I know that dikes are made of igneous rock and not metamorphic but let me have the pun please)

[dikelovingdyke]

About Me

Editing this now that I think I have a decent grasp on Tumblr.

Hello! I'm a transmasc butch lesbian and a geologist in training, and that's basically my whole personality, hence the username.

My interests include Gideon the Ninth/The Locked Tomb, rocks, geography, punk (esp. queercore!), lesbian history, hiking and backpacking, and probably a lot of other things I'm forgetting right now.

I'm mainly just making this blog for myself because I'm trying to get better about recording my life, but if you think it's interesting feel free to follow. I have no clue what I'm gonna post yet, probably just whatever I feel like (so a lot of nerdy shit...)

I'm a socialist and a leftist; I believe that everyone deserves to be treated with basic human decency and to have all their needs met. If you don't believe that then please don't follow me (and maybe get some empathy?) Racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, or any other kind of bigotry will get you blocked.

Also I would love to make some more friends, especially other butches, so if you want that too and you're around my age feel free to message me!

[tongue-twists]

why won't you conform why won't you just conform if you don't conform you'll be hurt you'll be sad you'll be alone why won't you conform don't you want to be accepted don't you want to be part of the norm I had to conform my parents had to conform you have to conform if you don't conform it means I didn't actually have to conform it means the rules are fake why won't you conform the rules are real because I enforce them I will hurt you I will make you sorry why won't you just conform you should do it for me you should do it so I don't feel uncomfortable so I don't have to think so I don't have to question what I did to myself what I did to others pursuing this norm that I want to be absolute why won't you conform your difference is so loud it's an attack on who I am you are hurting me you are hurting me no matter what I do you just won't be normal you just won't act normal can’t you just repress who you are forever for my convenience you have to do it for me just for me your existence is unbearable to me why won't you just shut up why won't you just disappear why won't you just die why won't you just die just die

[sharpestlives]

some of you people are so annoying. i mean me too but good lord

[mortalityplays]

Americans will see someone express mild discomfort that they teach their children obliterating two civilian cities in the most horrific manner humanity has yet devised was a defensible wartime strategy and be like "to be fair,"

[ninefoldrin]

Fun fact! The Japanese were literally trying to surrender and were going through the Soviets (the US' allies throughout WW2) to negotiate but were only really holding out because they wanted assurances that America wouldn't execute the emperor (go figure, the leader didn't want to die because he said he gave up). America wasn't actually planning to execute him, but refused to accept anything less than unconditional surrender, and that was a condition. Regardless of conditions, Japan was going to be surrendering the moment the USSR invaded, which was planned to happen imminently. America knew this. America knew that once the USSR entered the war with Japan, they would have a seat at the negotiating table.

Anti-communist sentiments were already strong in US leadership. The US didn't want communists gaining any more ground on the world stage and nuking Japan was a way to kill two birds with one bomb: end the war before the USSR entered and show the USSR that the USA could wipe out any of their cities in the blink of an eye. People sometimes try to argue that the second bomb had to be dropped because Japan didn't surrender after the first, but Japanese leadership didn't even meet to discuss the first bomb until shortly before the second dropped. At that point, losing an entire city had little effect on leadership. They already had entire cities leveled with conventional weapons. They hadn't yet processed that Hiroshima was leveled by a single bomb. It didn't matter though. The fact that they delayed at all gave America an excuse to prove to the USSR that they could do it again. The US obliterated two cities in Japan ultimately as a shot across the bow for the USSR.

What popular history likes to gloss over is the chain of events that lead to Perl Harbor. The US initially supported Japan (along with selling resources to all sides in the European war), even as Japan committed war crimes across China and Korea. The US had good relations with Japan at that point and saw Japan's invasion of China as a way to get a foothold in a country that had a history of being restrictive of foreign trade. Japan didn't roll out the red carpet for America though; they realized that they had something that the USA wanted and planned to use that to their advantage in global politics and trade. In response, the US stopped selling steel to Japan for their war effort. US leaders/strategists were very aware that cutting Japan off from resources they'd been relying on for their war would invite retaliation, and thus Perl Harbor happened. The US only ever cared about gaining greater access to markets and labor and was willing to fight a war over it, but in such a way that Japan would make the first move.

The US might have ended up on the right side of WW2, but not for the right reasons. The war in Europe was already going in the allies' favor and the entrance of the US only really expedited the war, but it gave the US a seat at the table when deciding what happened after the war. It let the US build military bases in Europe and bring more US businesses into Europe. The US suffered the least from the war and was able to take advantage of the fact that they didn't need to rebuild entire cities like every European country did. it was politically and financially beneficial to the US to join the war late on the side that was already set up to win, especially with a little extra push.

And for the future, the US had a chance to show the world that they weren't afraid to wipe out entire cities with a single bomb. They didn't care about the children incinerated at school, or the handful of survivors who would die because of the radiation. There was no reason for the US to obliterate two cities in a single moment. The US could have chosen to end the war by then but refused to accept any conditions of surrender. The US only used those bombs to show the world how heartless they could be, and then spent decades feeding the public propaganda about how it was necessary so that no one would question why they would ever be willing to do something so horrific.

[vivvy-of-the-lake]

you try to tell yankees that dropping atomic bombs may not have been absolutely necessary and they'll start picking up the same talking points about every japanese citizen during wwii being a fanatical suicidal lunatic, as if they're picking up where they left off with 1945 levels of racism

[maotism]

not to mention that after the japanese surrendered and had already left the philippines, the us still used the japanese occupation as an excuse to bomb manila bay for a week straight, devastating the country's infrastructure and setting the philippines up to be eternally indebted to the us through the loans it had to take out via the imf and world bank. loans that — due to the fact that they're in usd, 60x stronger than the philippines peso — led to the philippines economy to be built around exporting goods (and people, as cheap labor) to the west, completely reliant on imports and fully dependent on the us economy

[samirasystole]

ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see

[spaceoddeity]

How to get over your lesbian Situationship

by Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Step 1: Lobotomy

[tlirsgender]

What is up with lefty types pushing to learn practical skills (sewing/gardening/etc whatever) as like "you'll need to know this after The Revolution:tm:" and not, like, "this is a useful skill to help yourself & others in your communities Right Now". You all sound like doomsday preppers and it's weirding me out. We don't have to prep for communist rapture maybe thee revolution starts with helping your neighbors

[futchcommunist-deactivated20190]

all cops are bastards because all cops are just doing their jobs

[anti-dyrgrip]

“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen. Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.

[gunsandfireandshit]

He uh, skipped awful quickly to “stealing gold fillings” didn’t he?

[disbarredgoose0]

Original Article the image & caption are taken from.

It’s real.

[whereserpentswalk]

Remember that “just following orders” was a claim made by the nazis who survived World War Two who were charged with warcrimes.

They also stole the gold from people’s teeth.

[gideonisms]

I know that this won't happen because gideon is too shy and harrow doesn't even respect john or anyone he puts into power anymore but ever since tazmuir said in that one interview that alecto will explore what happens when harrow and gideon's power imbalance gets reversed I keep thinking about gideon using her position as a prince to order harrow around and well, I . just think we should all explore that in 50k words of smut sometimes

[iridescent-sunshine]

I've never met anyone who's issues with transgender people couldn't be solved by minding their own business.

[runasulienadanika]

griddlehark was invented to violently beat me to death and whatever Camilla and Palamedes have was invented to additionaly kick me in the head when i'm already down and bleeding👍

[tacticaljorts]

every piece of media would be better with a butch in it

[leftbooblover]

I got sweaty butches on my mind

[dailywilliams]

HW.

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[puzzled-on-main]

am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat

[beemovieerotica]

[beemovieerotica]

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]